By David Poland poland@moviecitynews.com
Lumenick Channels McCarthy, Brain Death in 'Ant Bully' Review
You have to hand it to the Post’s Lou Lumenick. Obviously tiring of his colleagues’ half-assed Soviet allusions in their analyses of conflicts in the Middle East, the critic today reaffirms his old-school GOP cred by steadfastly clinging to the Cold War–in the most reactionary way possible, of course:
If The Ant Bully were made 60 years ago, it would have been one-tenth the length, boasted 10 times as many laughs – and probably would have landed its makers before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
This generic exercise in computer-generated animation may provide passable entertainment for very young children, but adults will be less than enchanted by its preachiness, talkiness and Communist Party-line political views. …
Our hero is taken prisoner and the ant queen (voiced by Meryl Streep, no less) assigns a nurse aunt named Hova (Julia Roberts) to indoctrinate Lucas in the ways of the colony.
She yammers so incessantly about sacrificing all for the common good that her lines sound like they were scripted by Karl Marx. Did I mention these are red ants?
Well, no, Lou, but go right ahead. Anyway, not all is lost: Warner Bros. can take consolation in its new film being “passable entertainment for very young children,” especially considering The Ant Bully‘s “very young children” target audience.
More excitingly, Lumenick has bumped up the flow in his and Kyle Smith‘s right-wing hack pissing contest, inching the 2006 competition closer to its All the King’s Men/Bobby review showdown and the coveted grand prize: one’s name scrawled on a rocket into Lebanon and a signed color headshot of Andrea Peyser. That Murdoch guy sure knows how to motivate people.